I’ve seen this in a few different places now, and although it’s pretty dumb, as a mind-hack it’s pretty funny.

While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral “6” in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse direction.

Speaking of Google, UW’s LIS program is now offering a graduate-level class in Google. The Seattle Times reports that the class “explores Google as a cultural phenomenon, Google the business, the technology behind Google — and ‘Google the Ravager of Worlds.'” Hell, when a product name gets its own verb (google me), I think it’s ok if it gets its own class too. OK, alma mater UIUC, whatcha got? A class on e-bay? Amazon’s Search-Inside-the Book? Don’t let the Seattle-ites have all the fun…

Gary Price guest-writes for The Pandia Post and highlights some of the Google-glitches that annoy both basic and advanced users. “A Couple of Comments About Google” is a must-read for reference librarians particularly. I must admit, I didn’t know that all backlinks are not shown when you run a <>link: search. Stuff like this is good to know…

TechnoBiblio’s Aaron discusses the implications that CIPA has for WiFi access in libraries. Basic question is this: are we responsible, per CIPA, for monitoring/controlling what our patrons (adults or children) access using our network but their own computers?

Alright, I resisted as long as I could, but everyone and their librarian-brother is posting about this thing. Del.icio.us is a collaborative bookmarks manager, web-based, and spiffy. I’m thinking it would be most useful for reference librarians to collaborate on a set of bookmarks for use at the desk. Now I’m a tiny bit afraid that my library’s librarians will see this post, get all excited, and ask for training on how to best use it 😉 ‘sok Theresa!

So, FreeAfterRebate.com higlighted this free 32MB flash drive from both eCost and PCMall. 32MB is pretty small for a flash drive, but if you’re looking to get your feet wet with this technology, this would be a good/free way to do it.